Word: tested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chance to prove it when he designed the Malolo, a luxury ship of the Matson Line, and a heaven-sent chance to watch a test case of his theory. On the Malolo's trial run, 26 miles off Nantucket, another Norwegian freighter appeared out of the fog and, as the fascinated Mr. Gibbs watched, crashed into the Malolo amidship. Into the pilothouse rushed Gibbs. He pushed the buttons to operate the sliding bulkhead doors, which should close off the shattered compartment and keep the sea from flooding and sinking the Malolo. Down into the hold he plunged. Green water...
...Standard English reading test, required for all yardlings, takes place tomorrow, as does the gathering of new students in New Lecture Hall. At that meeting, Dean Hanford, Keyes D. Metcalf, director of the University library, and Dean Delmar Leighton, '46's own dean, will be the speakers...
Remember that the University doesn't dictate to anyone the way he should spend his spare time. Harvard has assumed that its students are adults, and so far the assumption has stood the test fairly well. Although most cocktail lounges have been disrupted in these crowded days relaxation has not been outlawed And Phillips Brooks House has not let the war interrupt its Harvard-Radcliffe teas. Football games and post-game dances have not been cancelled. The Houses, into which Freshmen are moved for the first time this year, have arranged for men of '46 to meet and to cement...
Dean Leighton also announced the schedule for language examinations. A combined placement and reading requirement test in French will be held on Monday, September 28, at 9 o'clock, in the New Lecture Hall; while the reading examination in German will follow it in the same place at 11 o'clock
Radio's shrill-voiced, incredible pundits, the Quiz Kids, last fortnight took the Army aviation cadet "screening" test, averaged a score of 101. Passing score: 80. Commented Van Dyke Tiers, 15: "Some of the math and physics problems I recognized from school before I was halfway through them." His score was 131, only 12 below the highest ever registered at the Chicago recruiting office...